Indianapolis signed offensive lineman Fahn Cooper. In addition defensive lineman David Parry was arrested for DUI, assault, resisting arrest, criminal damage and theft of a golf cart in Arizona.

New England named Nick Caley tight ends coach.

Pittsburgh placed the exclusive tag on RB Le'Veon Bell. They also resigned WR Antonio Brown to a 5 year contract.

In case anyone does not know, there are two franchise tags. Exclusive and Non Exclusive. The differences are minor but significant.

For the exclusive tag, only the team placing the tag can negotiate with the player. Only the Steelers can talk to Bell for instance.
For the non exclusive tag, any team can talk to the player, but they only give an offer sheet. If the player signs the offer sheet, his current team may match the offer sheet and he stays with them at that deal. If they decline to match, he goes to the team that made that offer, and his current team gets two first round picks as compensation.

Steelers resign James Harrison to a 2 year, $3.5 million deal. If Harrison finishes out his contract, he'll become just the 3rd LB in NFL history (Clay Matthews, Junior Seau) to play past his 40th birthday.

"I will never give a motivational speech to my players. If I have to motivate you, I will fire you."

This started out as one of the most stacked free agent classes in recent memory. I am not surprised to see all these guys getting the franchise tag. Teams don't want to overpay their own players and that is exactly what they would have to do to keep most of the big name FAs.

Add Chris Long to my list of FAs I would like to see Detroit make a run at. Ziggy Ansah needs a counterpart.

New York Giants promoted Rob Leonard to assistant defensive line coach. They also named Bobby Blick defensive assistant and Pratik Patel director of performance nutrition/assistant strength and conditioning coach.